Hell

Training again

                                             2 weeks later

      "I told you not to call that captain an idiot!" Eryk screams at Ken. "Well he should learn how to run a ship." Ken says. "SHUT UP AND FOCUS!" I yell. "Why did you need me anyway? I assume this is not just a random trip." Ken says. "Less talking more shooting." Eryk says and sprayed his ppsh at the oncoming horde of zombies and ghosts. "Really need to learn when ya run yer tongue, landlubber!" Screams the captain. "You need to learn when to shut up!" Ken screams back as he mounts his m134 and begins to spray death on the horde. "Yer landlubbers and yer fancy shiny lead sprayers, you would not last a month with me." "You wanna test that theory?" I yell at him. "Bring it little lady." I start to get up but I see Eryk walk right past all of the still advancing horde. "What's this?" The captain asks as Eryk walks right up to him and lifts him by the collar of his coat. "You think you experienced pain? Dread? Death? Did you have to bury nearly 400 of your closest friends, kill friends on orders? You don't know what pain is and you don't know what it takes to pilot this galleon." Eryk says and throws him on the floor in front of me and Ken. "Yer a weakling, you are. You think yer have any ex..." The captain is cut off as we all see the air behind Eryk swirl and images appear behind him. "You have no experience of death nor do you have any right to question me. I was born and trained before you were even speaking. I was even killed by one of my most trusted allies. Can you claim as much captain?" He asks as images of a village are shown behind him. "You cannot claim as much as you speak." The captain states. The image behind Eryk shifts to him walking down a dark alley and being stabbed in the chest by a much younger looking Azazel. "I cannot claim as much as I say? Did you have to bury your only childhood friend? Did you have to kill an entire town for not following the law? DID YOU HAVE TO SPEND 500 YEARS IN TARTARUS?" Eryk yells as the image switches to him sitting in darkness with tormenting voices and offers keep telling him to pick up the knife in front of him and slit his own throat. "I should write a book on this..." I hear Poe mutter in my head. "I'd buy it, but that is how I killed him. He was walking down to go pay his respect to Jasmine, one of his fellow guards who was killed in a previous attack and I stabbed him with her dagger." Azazel tells me and I feel somewhat ashamed of having him in me. "You should tell me the details of that encounter. You seem to have a glorious sense of irony." Poe says. "For betraying the trust of the one man who helped me or because of killing with a dagger of the only one he could trust with his fears?" Azazel asks, disgust easily detectable in his voice. "I don't see what the problem is. The past is the past let it be." Poe says. "Pay attention on the images behind Eryk, Poe." Azazel says and retreats to a private part of his own thoughts. I focus my attention on the images. I see that after he stabbed Eryk, he sat down next to the barely alive Eryk and he was the one that buried him next to Jasmine. I only know this because he finished off Eryk before pouring the dirt on the coffin. "Still makes a perfect idea for a book." Poe comments. I feel Azazel pull out of seclusion, anger clearly feelable, mostly because my vision turned a bit red. "You think that it is alright being stabbed in the chest by your closest friend, who helped you for nearly 300 years? You only experienced the life of a pathetic mortal. Imagine being accepted into heaven for doing such an act and then being killed by your closest friend who turned into one of the most powerful demons in Hell. I'm sure you would like to be burned alive and trapped in a dungeon of never ending torture... Ow wait I know. I'll write a book on that too, because being stabbed in the chest and poisoned nonstop makes such a wonderful book. You do not understand what anyone but you went through, so do not make me get mad over writing a book about killing the one person that understood you and then being killed, imprisoned, and tortured by his anger. You do not know anything about what we went through and you failed to finish anything but a single novel, yet planned on writing hundreds of them. Did you have to fight nearly 70 thousand other people to have a chance to finish your book? I had to kill that many other demons to have a chance to beg for the stop of my torture. So you be silent and don't bring that topic back up or you will experience the pain I went trough for 300 years." Azazel says and pulls back into his own thoughts, still pulsating with anger. "How dare he. I was close to finishing the second novel." I hear Poe say but I lock him away in a mental maze. "So ye got your chest stabbed by a little knife and died. Quit pulling sorrow in my eyes you are still the most unfit to run dis here ship." The captain says. A weapon that I didn't know appeared in Eryk's hand, while the image behind him grew to be 50 feet tall and 50 feet wide and showed a single large figure on a skull throne. "Demons, unlike mortals do not know fear. All they know is anger. The figure behind me taught me how to summon this axe. It makes rage pour into the holder. Now if a demon got his hand on this axe their power would grow to 400 times their strength. I have nine in me." Eryk says as the red spirits from the attack two weeks ago appeared again. "This is the power of Khorne, the god of fire, bone, blood and anger. What happens when it is used on nine of the strongest demons in Hell?" He smiles as armor that is not usually worn by him appears on him. It looks to be four times thicker and the red spirits are trapped in the arm of it. "I am the host of Death, the host of Lucifer, and the host of Malphas. You will either submit to me or be killed." Eryk says in a deeper voice than usual, and a voice that sounds like it would kill everything in the next four miles. "I will never submit this ship to anyone! Especially to a weakling like you!" The captain yells and charges with a sword. He swings the sword at Eryk's chest but two feet before it hit, the sword was broken into hundreds of tiny pieces by an unseen tendril of energy. I turn to see Ken gasping. "What is it?" I ask Ken. "He used his inner energy like us Ghouls, but his was much more focused. Like it had a mind of its own." Ken said. "Have you ever seen anything like that before?" I ask but he shakes his head. I turn back to see Eryk lift the captain by one hand while slicing his gut with the axe. He then threw the body overboard and had the armor disappear, but kept the axe. He walked back to us and sat down. All of the horde which was charging us a few seconds before, went back to work on getting us to the center of the Bermuda Triangle, where Famine was supposed to be sealed. I looked at the axe that Eryk was holding. It was a cherry red metal with a golden trim, but what I missed before was that along the blade of the axe was hundreds of tiny spikes that were shifting positions at the same speed that a chainsaw would have the belt rolling. "What did you do to focus your energy like that? It takes the veterans months of practice to focus any emotion into a weapon, but you seem to be able to do it at will and let it protect you. No Ghoul but me and my top ranks have been able to use their Kagune to such an extent." Ken said. Eryk looks over and smiles slightly "I had a good teacher." He says then passes out. "Shit." Ken says and lifts him up and carries him to his cabin below deck. I follow to see drops of blood from his back. When we go into the cabin Ken helps me take off his shirt and we see a long, deep gash on the middle of his back. "Why would his back have a cut?" I ask Ken. "I don't actually know." I nod and walk back onto the top of the deck. What are we gonna do? He was the one that could sense Famine's presence. After standing on the deck for a couple of hours I feel a tap on my shoulder. "Yes?" I ask. "It's two in the morning, go get some rest I'll be here just in case." Ken says. I nod and walk into my cabin.

       Ugh, next time I will think before using that damn axe. I think to myself as I get up. I look around and notice that I'm in my cabin, and see that Silver is passed out in a chair near my bed. I laugh a bit, then walk over and pick her up and carry her into bed. "I brought you some coffee..." Ken begins as he opens the door to my room but then nods and steps outside. I put on a fresh shirt and walk out onto the deck. "How long was I out?" I ask Ken. "Two days." He answers and I nod. I look at the map and see we are one day from the center of the triangle where a single little island sits. Almost four hours pass before Silver comes from below deck and comes and stands by us. "How was your nap Silver?" Ken asks. She smiles a bit and says, "Quite enjoyable. I dreamt about walking through the mountains under the stars and only having the light of the full moon to light my path. As I wondered the mountain on my own I met a demon who swore to protect me but I did not know what he meant by that. After I reached the top there was this wooden cabin with the lights on. I was amazed by the beauty of it and how the light of the full moon shone so brightly on the cabin. I then turned to the demon who never gave me its name to ask who lives there, but he was gone. I turn back to face the cabin and then walked up to the door and knocked on the door. When the door opened I saw the demon standing in the doorway with a warm smile on his face. The demon looked alot like...." Silver cheeks got a little pink before she says, "Never mind that last part but that's pretty much what the dream was about." After she shares the dream we all stand in silence for an hour as I steer the ship in the direction of growing power. "Ken tell me, why did you agree to come on this trip?" I ask. "You said you could use some help and it needed to be one of the powerful Ghouls. I figured that since I'm nearly four times stronger than my second-in-command you would need me." Ken answered. "You still wanna protect her? Why not just come clean and tell her how you feel?" I ask. Silver raises an eyebrow as he blushes. "I... I don't know what you are talking about." He stutters. I smile a bit. "You do know that I see you and Tauka and how you act around her." "I... I... no comment." Ken says and lowers his head admitting defeat. I look at Silver's smiling face and pat Ken on the back. "Just tell her how you feel. I mean look at me and Silver. We saved each other's lives as well and look at us now, a still hidden... Ah forget it. When we get back you are to go straight to Touka look her in the eyes and tell her how you feel about her." I say. "But... No you're right. I am gonna do that... the second I get enough confidence." He says. I raise an eyebrow and say, "This might make your confidence rise a considerable amount." He looks up but says nothing. The day goes by slowly as we near the island. Fourteen hours pass and we finally see the island. "You do know what time it is?" Silver asks as she comes up from below deck. "Yeah, should be around 4 a.m." I say and steer the ship to land near the island. "Why are you not sleeping?" She asks. I laugh a bit and say, "I'm a bit of an insomniac." "You an insomniac? You always went to bed around midnight ." Silver says. "Yes and I would awake at two to do the bills and watch some TV as I practiced summoning, sealing, and containing demons in objects." I say. "Mhm... I strangely don't believe you." Says Silver in a semi sassy way. "How close are we, Ken?" I say. "Around two hours away." Ken says from somewhere behind us. "Waters clean but for some reason there's a burning plane coming down right on the center of the boat." I look to see something that makes me smile. "That crazy bastard knows how to make an entrance..." I move the ship a bit off the path of the plane and it crash lands into the water. A Few seconds later I hear a familiar deep laugh from behind me. "You always seem to be a bit ahead of me." Alucard says. "Eh, I have a fine crew of sea dogs unlike nazi vampires." I answer. "Good to see you still remember who we killed." Alucard says and walks over to take the wheel. "It's hard to forget the 'major dancing to the simpheny of madness' as he called it." I say. "Also the fact that he nearly destroyed all of Britain." Alucard says. "I own no loyalty to the country if that's what you are implying. Arthur sent me there to assist you and the Hellsings." I say and he nods. He sails us to the island and when we arrive Ken and I disembark the ship. "Where's the seal?" Ken asks. I point towards the only tree on the island. He nods and we walk over. I summon the seal. "Interesting... Grim was broken by me because I was revived on it, but this one requires only Grim to break." Strange, I thought. "Ah, there's the good old reaper." Says a man with scales. "Good to see you to Famine. Wanna get out and walk on free Earth again?" I ask. "You know what I crave for, but one man cannot hold two riders and I cannot exist without a host." I indicate Ken and say, "That's why he came. Meet your new host." I say. "Interesting..." Famine says as he studies Ken. "What is your name boy?" "My name is Ken, Sir." He answers. "Ken... A good name." Famine says then looks at me. "Break the seal after I am in Ken." I nod. Two minutes pass and I feel Famine's essence inside Ken, so I step on the seal to break it. The seal sets off a deep red glow as I step on it but the glowing pentagram on the floor disappears and we walk back onto the ship. "What was that light about Eryk?" Silver and Alucard ask. "First step to getting more powerful allies." I say.